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Sunday, May 25, 2008

SHEEP AND GOATS

A stand-out exchange (rendered from memory) in the moving Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, which received its UK network premier on Channel 4 this evening.

Record company executive: “Listen, your audience are Christians. They don’t want to see you dressed in black and hear you singing for criminals, pimps, rapists and thieves in prison, trying to cheer them up.”

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About Me

A writer, commentator, theologian and educator, I am co-director of Ekklesia, the think-tank and news service concerned with religion and public life from a radical, post-Christendom perspective. I also work as a trainer, facilitator and consultant with church and community initiatives, as well as continuing to publish for a wide variety of audiences - from general to academic. Football and music are my balancing passions. From 1996-2005 I worked for Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI), the official ecumenical body.